An Audience With
From the Full Monty to fund management: Why Rupert Harrison swapped politics for BlackRock
George Osborne’s former chief of staff says asset managers have to evolve — and explains why he used to have a screen dedicated to Donald Trump’s Tweets
5 min read
Fiera Capital’s Klaus Schuster: ‘You follow where the big private banks go’
Fiera Capital’s Emea boss says the asset manager is slowing its breakneck pace of acquisitions to focus more on wealth management
6 min read
Bank of England director David Bailey: Cap on bankers’ bonuses was a bad idea
Threadneedle Street’s number two on prudential policy discusses government pressure to grow and why pay limits were a bad idea
5 min read
Houlihan Lokey CEO Scott Adelson: ‘This is a Goldilocks moment for us’
The ‘accidental investment banker’ has been at Houlihan Lokey his whole life — and his expansion plans include getting ‘an awful lot’ of others to join him
5 min read
An Audience With M&G’s Fabiana Fedeli: ‘Volatility and geopolitics don’t necessarily hurt companies’
M&G’s CIO for equities, multi-asset and sustainability on active management in uncertain times and what the UK can do to breathe life into its stock market
5 min read
Foresight’s Bernard Fairman: ‘We need a UK Elon Musk’
The private equity manager’s co‑founder says London’s markets have many problems, including tedious reporting rules, but it takes a lot to beat the City
5 min read
Simmons & Simmons boss on stepping down: ‘Hope people don’t say, “That bastard Hoyland has left me with this problem”’
Simmons & Simmons’s boss is stepping down and heading to Italy for a new role. He hopes he’s left the law firm in good shape and ready to deal with AI
6 min read
Rathbones’ CEO Paul Stockton: ‘We’re a bit more Middle England than Monaco’
The 280-year-old wealth manager Rathbones has learnt new tricks from its Investec merger and is ready to embrace passive investment and Instagram
6 min read
Allspring CEO Joe Sullivan: ‘Breaking away from Wells Fargo was a seminal moment’
Allspring’s CEO says he’s looking to grow the asset manager internationally. Is he worried his private equity backers might have shorter term plans?
5 min read
Lazard Asset Management’s Jeremy Taylor: ‘Shape of the industry has changed permanently’
The CEO of Lazard Asset Management Limited talks about the challenges for the sector, the impact of the Magnificent Seven and his alternative career option
5 min read
Revisit FN’s biggest interviews from 2024
Top bankers, lawyers and private equity executives graced our pages this year
2 min read
Standard Chartered’s Diego De Giorgi: ‘It’s important to invest when you’re winning’
Standard Chartered’s CFO on ‘trying something new’, boosting the share price and the importance of cross-selling
JPMorgan’s Europe CEO Filippo Gori: ‘We’re looking at things that haven’t been touched for 20 years’
JPMorgan’s new co-head of global banking is not just taking over the role, but embarking on a big overhaul of the Wall Street bank’s business
BNP Paribas’s Emmanuelle Bury-Lucas: ‘We really had no role models to follow’
One of the few female leaders of a major bank, the head of BNP Paribas’s City operations wants to ensure no woman gets left behind in the AI revolution
Railpen’s Caroline Escott: Up your audit game, or we might divest
The Railways Pension Scheme wants to use its £34bn in assets to improve audits – it could pull money, vote against directors and more
Forterro’s Dean Forbes: ‘I don’t burn calories on emotional fear’
Voted the UK’s most powerful Black man, Forbes’s career started out in telesales after football failure. He has risen through the ranks in tech and private equity
5 min read
Brevan Howard’s Claire McCathie: ‘Achieving results commands respect’
The hedge fund’s emerging markets head wants traders to know their strengths and weaknesses
5 min read
FRC boss Richard Moriarty on breaking up the Big Four and audit’s ‘dark place’
A year into the role, the head of the audit watchdog wants to help turn the sector around
5 min read
Stonehage Fleming chair Anton Sternberg on going from James Bond to global adviser
Stonehage Fleming’s clients include the descendants of the famous spy’s creator. But the wealth manager’s UK chair says it eschews glamour in favour of the fundamentals
6 min read
Cleary Gottlieb boss Michael Gerstenzang: ‘The obsession with pay is overblown’
The elite US law firm’s managing partner says lawyers are motivated by more than money as a war for talent rages
5 min read
